Thanks mom!! I love reading your emails! I have been so blessed this week! We had Zone Conference and I was able to have an awesome interview with President Waddoups! He is such a great guy. We have been working really hard to meet with some of our less active members and normally they all tell us not to come and visit them for various reasons. Then this week our branch mission leader told us to contact them and so we did contact two of them and one of the sorelle (sisters) that we called told us that normally she didn't want the anziani to come over but this time when I had called her, instead of asking for her by first name I asked for Sister ____ and she said this touched her heart and wanted us to come visit her that night. So we went by her house that night and she bore her testimony to us and said how strongly she believes in the church, it was just that some of the members in the past had had an argument with her and caused that she never wanted to come to church again, which is too bad! But we will meet with her again next week! Also there was another who said she had lost her faith in Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom so Friday we will go to teach her about the Book of Mormon and read it with her!
Last night we walked for two hours to an African camp and saw a boat fillled with Africans coming over straight from Africa just into the harbor of Tràpani. They have all told me that Nigeria is not as hot as it is here in Tràpani, it's just that it's way more dangerous there, so they have to flee for safety without their children and wives most the time! Last night I met this couple who had been in Italy for 6 days from the Ivory Coast. I told them we were missionaries and they told me they didn't speak Italian or English, only French, so it turned out that I taught my first lesson to this couple in French while my companion was teaching other investigators in English, I had no idea that I could speak French until they started asking me questions and I was responding! Also, yesterday some man in a car pulled over and was searching for an address. I soon realized he was speaking Spanish and I was understanding! And, I was speaking Spanish and he was understanding! These were two really cool experiences from yesterday! Today we are going to have lunch with a member family and then help the son with some algebra! I hope I still remember that as well! hahaha! Well, I love hearing your encouraging letters each week! I love knowing I can rely on the gospel to help my life in every aspect and that we are are just doing our best to follow the perfect example of our Savior, Jesus Christ! I am so grateful for the possibility to become Christ-like through the atonement and then to help others! At Zone Conference we talked about the basics and about growing faith, repenting, being baptized and then enduring and I am so grateful to share this basic knowledge with others! Well, I hope you have a great week!
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